problems with std.bitmanip.append (bug?)

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On Thursday, 26 March 2015 at 12:29:03 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> 
> On Thursday, 26 March 2015 at 12:21:23 UTC, Hugo wrote:
>>
>> Also, can anyone provide a similar example but using little 
>> endian order? If only to contrast differences between modes of 
>> invocation...
>
> void main() {
>    import std.stdio, std.array, std.bitmanip, std.system;
>    auto buffer = appender!(const ubyte[])();
>    buffer.append!(ushort, Endian.littleEndian)(261);
>    assert(buffer.data == [5, 1]);
>    writefln("%s", buffer.data);
> }
> 

Thanks, although it puzzles me that one has to move the type 
inside the parenthesis and the value after them, otherwise it 
doesn't compile.

It looks quite irregular, at least to someone like me, more used 
to function than templates. :(

I wish one could simply append a buffer using the concatenation 
operator, which would be the obvious choice, but it doesn't seem 
to work for ubytes...